Board
of Trustees chair enjoying new role
Board of Trustees chair Grace K. Fey brings more than one perspective
to her efforts on behalf of the University. While her professional
expertise is in financial matters, she also has a 35-year love of
the liberal arts and a blossoming public-service career.
Governor's
budget level funds system
The $22.5 billion Fiscal Year 2002 budget proposed by Gov. Paul
Cellucci last week calls for an increase of less than 1 percent
for the University system over this year's funding.
Distance-learning
leader chosen as UMass Online CEO
President William M. Bulger has appointed Jack M. Wilson, a leading
national authority on distance learning and higher education innovation,
as chief executive officer of UMass Online.
OIT completes
wiring of all residence halls for Internet
Last Friday at 11:12 a.m. Office of Information Technologies staff
activated ethernet connections in Butterfield House to complete
a four-year, nearly $3 million project to wire all 41 campus residences
halls for Internet access.
Fuel station
breakdown sends vehicles off-campus
Drivers of state vehicles are gassing up off-campus after a possible
leak shut down the campus's gasoline pumping station last week.
3 departments
open semester with new leaders
Three Arts and Humanities departments - Philosophy, Asian Languages
and Literatures, and French and Italian - have new leadership this
semester.
Former
dean, Himy Kirshen, oversaw SBA's expansion
Himy Benjamin Kirshen, 97, of Pleasant Hill, Calif., a retired dean
of the School of Business Administration, died Jan. 24.
Volunteer,
internship information offered at Community Service Fair
The Office of Community Service Learning at Commonwealth College
is sponsoring the annual Spring Community Service Fair on Wednesday,
Feb. 7, 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.
Nominations
sought for 2002 honorary degrees
The Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees will meet later this
semester to consider nominations from the campus community for honorary
doctoral degrees to be awarded at the 2001 commencement ceremonies.
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